26 clinics closed by health commission
Treatment centres were being run by dispensers and unqualified staff
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LAHORE:
The Punjab Healthcare Commission has closed down 26 treatment centres ran by quacks in Vehari district.
According to a press release issued on Monday, the commission had initiated further proceedings against such businesses. Two teams of PHC visited 78 treatment centres and found only 52 clinics were being run by qualified medics who were registered with the commission.
The other 26 were indulging in illegal medical practices and their premises were sealed. These fake treatment centres included 14 clinics of general practitioners, two hakeems, one homeopathic clinic, two laboratories, six dentists and one bone-setter.
These treatment centres were being run by dispensers and unqualified staff, while other illegal practices included medical stores treating patients, homeopathic doctors and hakeems giving allopathic medicines, dentistry without qualified doctors, laboratories without pathologists and other qualified staff.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 21st, 2017.
The Punjab Healthcare Commission has closed down 26 treatment centres ran by quacks in Vehari district.
According to a press release issued on Monday, the commission had initiated further proceedings against such businesses. Two teams of PHC visited 78 treatment centres and found only 52 clinics were being run by qualified medics who were registered with the commission.
The other 26 were indulging in illegal medical practices and their premises were sealed. These fake treatment centres included 14 clinics of general practitioners, two hakeems, one homeopathic clinic, two laboratories, six dentists and one bone-setter.
These treatment centres were being run by dispensers and unqualified staff, while other illegal practices included medical stores treating patients, homeopathic doctors and hakeems giving allopathic medicines, dentistry without qualified doctors, laboratories without pathologists and other qualified staff.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 21st, 2017.